23 Master theses

• 408 - Minerals on the Move: The Role of Mineral Trade versus Mineral Extraction in Armed Conflict in Eastern Congo

  Author: Else-Marie van den Herik

  Supervisor: Steven Poelhekke

  Defense date: October 24, 2023

• 407 - Weathering the Gender Gap: Monsoon Onset Delays and Educational Outcomes in Indonesia’s Ethnic Landscape

  Author: Sarah Leuthold

  Supervisors: Menno Pradhan, Karlijn Morsink

  Defense date: October 02, 2023

• 406 - Spillover Effects on Adult Workers from a Dutch Youth Minimum Wage Increase

  Author: Roel Gort

  Supervisors: Olivier Marie, Ana Figueiredo

  Defense date: September 26, 2023

• 405 - Perceived Value-for-Money: An Experiment on Advice-Giving

  Author: Julian Tait

  Supervisors: Randolph Sloof, Jeroen van de Ven

  Defense date: August 30, 2023

• 404 - The Effect of Inflation Expectations on Consumption Decisions

  Author: Anna Mogilevskaja

  Supervisor: Stefanie Jeanette Huber

  Defense date: August 28, 2023

• 403 - A Quantitative Model for Evaluating Changes in the Duration of Secondary School with an Application to the G8 Reform in Germany

  Author: Lara Klein

  Supervisors: Björn Brügemann, Pieter Gautier

  Defense date: August 23, 2023

• 402 - AI-Powered Promises: The Influence of ChatGTP on Trust and Trustworthiness

  Author: Ivo Greevink

  Supervisors: Theo Offerman, Giorgia Romagnoli

  Defense date: August 23, 2023

• 401 - The Declining Labour Share: Markups and Reallocation in the Input-Output Network

  Author: Elliott Weder

  Supervisors: Eric Bartelsman, Agnieszka Markiewicz

  Defense date: August 23, 2023

• 400 - A Dutch Agent Based Model calibrated with Microdata

  Author: Steven Hoekstra

  Supervisors: Cars Hommes, Frank Pijpers

  Defense date: August 23, 2023

• 399 - Heterogeneous-Agent Asset Pricing with the Master Equation: Idiosyncratic Risk in a Production Economy with Habit Formation

  Author: Niklas Bonnmann

  Supervisors: Elisabeth Pröhl, Remco Zwinkels, Martijn de Vries

  Defense date: August 23, 2023

• 398 - Ordinal World and Cardinal Questions: Possibility, Impossibility and John Harsanyi

  Author: Dorottya Kulcsar

  Supervisor: Roland Luttens

  Defense date: August 23, 2023

• 397 - Compositional Shift and the Returns to Higher Education in the Netherlands

  Author: Elena Castellaro

  Supervisors: Monique de Haan, Bas van der Klaauw

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 396 - From Flocks to Fortunes: Experience, Belief Updating, and Insurance Adoption

  Author: Vinh Phan

  Supervisor: Karlijn Morsink

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 395 - Establishing error bounds for implicit and explicit score-driven filters

  Author: Simon Donker van Heel

  Supervisors: Dick van Dijk, Rutger-Jan Lange

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 394 - Mortality Effects of Temperature: Evidence from the Netherlands

  Author: Maartje van Wijhe

  Supervisors: Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Tom van Ourti

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 393 - Gender Difference in CEO Optimism and Firm Outcomes

  Author: Fantine Tingfang Xiao

  Supervisors: Anne Boring, Chen Li

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 392 - Misspecification and Weak Identification in Forward-Looking Macroeconomic Models

  Author: Haobai Guo

  Supervisor: Frank Kleibergen

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 391 - Portfolio Rebalancing across the Investment Universe

  Author: Jiacheng Li

  Supervisors: Michel van der Wel, Anastasija Tetereva

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 390 - A Guided Neural Network Approach to Volatility Forecasting

  Author: Ming Cheng

  Supervisors: Peter Boswijk, Yi He

  Defense date: August 22, 2023

• 389 - Nominal corporate debt, default and inflation

  Author: Sijmen Rijks

  Supervisor: Xuan Wang

  Defense date: August 21, 2023